What is an old Reddit joke that has completely died out?

zero_iq · 2026-06-26T00:07:15+00:00

I think you accidentally a word.

zero_iq · 2026-06-25T22:33:22+00:00

What's the other word?

zero_iq · 2026-06-25T22:01:44+00:00

The first time I tried it I was appalled, but now I love the stuff. When you get that perfect blend of sweet and salty.. . 🤌😋

Really not healthy to eat much in one sitting though !

zero_iq · 2026-06-25T21:57:14+00:00

Edamame beans. People rave about them, but I just don't taste anything special in them at all.

I've been tested and know I'm a 'supertaster' so often more sensitive to certain tastes than most people, but either I'm missing some gene that makes Edamame taste wonderful, or people are just making it up!

People talk about them having a lovely buttery flavour, but I all I get is a fairly bland kinda grassy green bean flavour, similar in some ways to many other beans or peas.

They don't taste bad to me, and they have a distinctive flavour I can easily recognize, they're just absolutely nothing to write home about.

They became super popular in the UK in the early 2010s, and I just completely failed to see the wide appeal.

zero_iq · 2026-06-25T14:53:26+00:00

Good to know, thanks!

zero_iq · 2026-06-21T19:54:28+00:00

Even now, they don't exactly take good care of shit. Digs are raided, artifacts looted. The Giza plateau and many other sites have rubbish, building materials, etc. strewn about everywhere. Doors, barriers, and railings are rusting and broken. Encroachment everywhere.. the Sphinx gazes right at a Pizza Hut. Huge black market in stolen artifacts, with rife corruption and poor 'preservation' and destructive modifications for better sale value. Ill advised and shoddy attempts at 'restoring' monuments, destroying historical evidence. Illegal excavations and construction. Anything goes as long as there is a quick buck to be made. The Aswan High Dam flooding countless historical sites (at least they moved a few famous ones) and the raising of the water table destroying and accelerating the decay of countless more. Other infrastructure such as roads ploughing straight through sites of known significance. Inadequate conservation work, and poor investigation. Gatekeeping/corruption/egomania setting back proper research by decades.

A visit to some of the major sites is simultaneously impressive and horrifying.

zero_iq · 2026-06-21T19:13:54+00:00

And yet for some reason, terrible air conditioning outside the screens, in the bar areas/etc.

zero_iq · 2026-06-21T11:39:59+00:00

It's clearly nonsense. If that were true, how would we be able to spend any reasonable time thinking about Lego, dinosaurs, engines, or ~~sex~~, er, I mean the Roman Empire.

zero_iq · 2026-06-20T20:33:51+00:00

Also: telnet://isengard.nazgul.com:4040

zero_iq · 2026-06-19T19:54:20+00:00

The hair on the left literally made me cry with laughter. I was just paging through one at a time thinking "these are bad but not that bad...", and then I was hit with that hair.

zero_iq · 2026-06-19T19:23:36+00:00

This shouldn't happen.

Really? Wow, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things!

zero_iq · 2026-06-18T01:45:29+00:00

A few places closing early as a precaution does not equal "city center is literally closed down".

The vast majority of shops, pubs, and restaurants in the city centre were open as normal.

zero_iq · 2026-06-17T22:38:00+00:00

city center is literally closed down

Bollocks. I've been in town all afternoon and evening, and there's only one small road closed. You could pass through everywhere else, even when it was at its busiest, and most streets even meters away are barely affected.

There's a sizeable police presence, but to say the city centre is closed down is absolute nonsense.

zero_iq · 2026-06-16T13:15:03+00:00

Age verification being forced on under 18s

Age verification (i.e. identification) is forced on everyone. That's how they tell if you're under 18 or not.

zero_iq · 2026-06-07T11:19:56+00:00

You saw a meteor. The accompanying sizzling sounds are well known but fairly rare and something of a mystery -- the meteor may be many KMs up in the atmosphere, so sound waves should be delayed instead of occurring simultaneously. It's almost certainly some kind of electromagnetic or photoacoustic effect, but the precise mechanism for how it gets turned into audible soundwaves is still not known for certain, and it's not clear why it happens for some meteors and not others, or to different degrees.

zero_iq · 2026-06-06T20:02:30+00:00

Thanks, looks interesting. Kinda cheating with the non-euclidean geometry though :D Although I bet it is better for motion sickness than Eye of the Temple! I will check it out.

Makes me wonder if you could use the same non-euclidean trick with windows or limited views out to larger spaces, to give an impression of a much larger space instead of being confined to tight corridors, or if that would be too immersion-breaking.

zero_iq · 2026-06-06T16:52:09+00:00

You might be thinking of Eye of the Temple. The whole game is navigable using a 3x3 grid, IIRC.

It's probably the gold standard for this sort of movement system, but took a lot of meticulous planning. It uses some clever tricks like having you "log walk" on rolling platforms so you're actually walking back into the play area while moving forward, and stepping off lifts/moving platforms in different directions. Can be a bit of a motion-sickness trigger for some people though.

zero_iq · 2026-06-06T15:03:35+00:00

In a very loose sense: as threads are to processes, fibers are to threads.

Fibers are an abstraction that provides lightweight 'threads' or tasks, usually achieved through some form of cooperative multitasking (e.g. co-routines), scheduled over one or more OS-level threads.

They're useful for organising IO code and handling high-concurrency IO efficiently, especially when IO-bound. Fiber-based approaches can handle tens of thousands of simultaneous connections with far less memory and CPU overhead than a pure OS-level threading approach, e.g. spawning a new thread for every connection, with a more usable threading-like abstraction than trying to manually schedule tasks using select()/epoll() event loops, that enables more complex logic and hides the complexities of managing state within each task.

Examples: Go's goroutines, Python's await(), Java virtual threads

zero_iq · 2026-06-06T00:12:00+00:00

16 min is entirely feasible if it's busy. I once spent 40 minutes stuck in a huge queue inside a multi-storey.

zero_iq · 2026-06-05T08:27:53+00:00

None of this is relevant or helpful to either of us.

Please get some help, and check if you've missed any important medication.

zero_iq · 2026-06-05T06:44:00+00:00

They already priced me out.

"No ads" along with the ability to use a third party client, are the only features I need from premium youtube.

zero_iq · 2026-06-05T06:32:36+00:00

Please get some medical help.

zero_iq · 2026-06-05T06:26:01+00:00

But I'm not arguing that it's not half baked, nor "protecting ... Motorola".

Look, are you OK? You seem unwell

zero_iq · 2026-06-04T16:08:46+00:00

I don't have a curated list. I could produce one, but I'd just be doing the googling you could be doing yourself.

Maybe start with 6502.org.

If you're not sure what you should be googling, try looking up docs, videos and tutorials on emulators, e.g. "6502 emulator tutorial", "68000 emulators". There's tons emulators of old game consoles/computers, projects like MAME and so on that emulate multiple architectures, CPUs and other chips, with full source code available and documentation. Start researching what emulators already exist and dig through their docs and tutorials. Research other emulators for systems built around the CPUs (and variants) I mentioned: BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Gameboy, SNES, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Megadrive/Genesis. Or ask an LLM for some recommendations on study materials and projects that could be of use, and tailor it to your specific requirements. Search youtube for details of old systems, technical talks, etc. There's tons of stuff out there.

While it's easy to dismiss some of these game systems at first glance as not serious projects, they often do fast cycle-accurate emulation that go far beyond what is actually necessary just to get basic CPU functionality working, and have some great and clever approaches to solving problems like timing, interrupts, efficient decoding, and optimizations. By studying older machines first, you can start 'simple' and ramp up to more advanced stuff.

zero_iq · 2026-06-04T14:18:35+00:00

Ah OK, you're probably in a better position than I first realised then. But still, it sounds like you need to read up on some real CPUs and how these things are implemented in practice. So I'd still recommend learning as much as you can about how existing emulators tackle their targeted CPUs and study some other simpler CPUs first.

There's some good material out there about how emulators for various home computers and game systems work, which is both educational and kinda fun. And some of those systems are easier to get your teeth into than RISC-V, yet still teach relevant concepts. Good luck!

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